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Why are fossil fuels better than biomass?
Fossil fuels release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Coal has the approximate chemical formula CH. ... Natural gas is the best fossil fuel in term...
A type of fuel that is made from animals and plants alive millions of years ago?
Fossil fuels are energy resources formed from the buried remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago. What type of fuel is formed f...
What conditions were needed to turn the plants and animals into fossil fuels?
Years ago, when prehistoric animals and plants died, layers of rock and dirt gradually buried them. Over millions of years, heat and pressure from Ear...
How does animals become fossil fuel?
Fossil fuels are made from decomposing plants and animals. These fuels are found in the Earth's crust and contain carbon and hydrogen, which can be bu...
Changing hard parts of remains from a animal or plant with minerals?
Petrified wood is an example of this process, which is called permineralization. At other times, the minerals in the groundwater actually replace the ...
What do you call the hollow part of a fossil?
What are hollow fossils called?What are the parts of a fossil?What is a fossil trap?What is an imprint of a fossil called?What is mold fossils?What i...
Why biofuel is preferred over fossilfuel?
Lower emissions. One of the biggest knocks against fossil fuels is that they give off toxic emissions. These pollutants, called greenhouse gases, trap...
A kind of fossil where an animal or plant leaves only its body impression in the mud?
Mold. Sometimes an organism sinks into soft mud that turns to rock. Then its body dissolves, leaving an impression of its shape in the rock. This impr...
How are plants and animals turned into fossil fuels?
FOSSIL FUELS FORM. After millions of years underground, the compounds that make up plankton and plants turn into fossil fuels. Plankton decomposes int...